![]() ![]() While you can't really recast the whole thing once it's defrosted, it'll never line up again properly, sometimes you have just enough to work with. Another bonus of keeping them is if you spot anything wrong with your form (like the arm issue with this one) I was able to fix it later by recasting the arm, had I thrown it out at this point I'd have had a much worse time. It always helps to keep these around to refer to if you need them. The body is easy to pull out of the mould at this point, it'll be fully defrosted so watch those intestines if you've cut it like this! I put my halves back into the freezer to keep for reference until the mount is complete and finished. I actually prefer doing 4 legs separate and the body whole because you don't get cooked intestine smell. As the plaster heats and sets it defrosts the meat, the smell from this was. Here is the mould pulled apart! My god, it STANK so badly. Don't bother putting any on your carcass though. A good layer is a fantastic release agent, plus it smooths out any bubbles or ridges in the plaster. The green random lump is to make a gap to help pry the mould open.Īt this point once that lower layer is dry and the glad wrap is in the keyholes I cover all the plaster and plasticine with petroleum jelly. The plasticine at the severed head is where my pour hole for the foam will be, and the plasticine at the lower leg where the toes should be is where the wire or threaded rod will be placed. This I find helps release the top layer from the bottom once they are both set, because it's hard getting a good layer of petroleum jelly into the keyholes. I generally lie a bit over the hole and push it in with a pencil, just to have some around the outside, and a layer in. ![]() Once the plaster on the bottom is set I push a bit of glad wrap into the holes, so it surrounds the edges, but isn't packing it full. ![]() The plasticine keys at this point I'd already taken out – but you can see the holes where they were. Here I've made a “bed” of plaster about 2–3cm thick and gently pushed one half of the fox into it and built up the plaster a bit around the steeper edges – feet, belly etc. ![]()
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